Last season, we knew there was going to be a next season.
Without that Season 3 renewal yet, where does that leave things?
Will you find out soon?
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How long do we have to hold our collective breath waiting?
MARTIN GERO: I think were gonna have to hold our breath until May.
I think well find out in and around the Upfronts with everybody else.
It was extenuating circumstances that we got to know so early last time.
We obviously know where it starts.
And so, fingers crossed.
If you do get to keep telling the story, will we now have two leapers?
Will we learn how thats even possible?
Would this just be very crowded leaps between two people and however many holograms?
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Are these all questions that youve thought about and already have answers to?
DEAN GEORGARIS: Yes.
Raymond Lee returns as Dr. Ben Song when Season 2 debuts on NBC on October 4.
I had tons of questions.
GERO: Thats the sign of a good jumping off point.
What does that look like?
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What happens if they get split up?
Do they jump to different time periods?
Are they always together?
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Are they sometimes apart?
What about the rest of the team?
How does this work with the team?
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With all that stuff, youre like, Great!
Those are all episodes.
All that stuff is in the show.
Normally, you have one or two questions, but with this, there are so many.
Do you have to know the answers to everything?
GEORGARIS: We go through a brainstorming process.
That was the first thing we knew, but we didnt know how to do it.
And then, Martin called me and said, What if three years went by for one of them?
We wanted a season about sacrifice because theres a price to pay for all the things theyre doing.
Certain ideas stick, like Hannah stuck right from the beginning.
Jeffrey was pretty early on, as was Tom.
Those were early choices.
I dont even remember some of the little branches that we trimmed away.
Its the same process for every season.
At least, thats the way Martin and I like to do it.
GERO: Yeah, absolutely.
Shippers are actually masochists that think theyre sadists.
They wanna be tortured a little bit.
Were just trying to hurt them the right way without losing them.
We dont wanna cross any lines.
This season has made next season really special, I think.
What led to that ultimate decision to have Addison and Ben leaping together?
GEORGARIS: As undramatic as this answer sounds, thinking back on it, it was always the plan.
We wanted to reunite them as promised, just not in the way you expected.
GERO: Honestly, it wasnt that it was easy.
The hard part was obviously laying the foundation for all of this to work.
This episode is all payoff.
The payoff is easy if you set out the dominoes right.
Thats the tricky part.
So, it was about, when do we break up Tom and Addison?
When should we introduce Jeffrey as a character?
Are we doing 13 [episodes], or are we doing 18?
We needed to wait until we knew what our episode count was to then lay all the groundwork.
Is that a Replica Handlink equipment or an Original ‘Quantum Leap’ Prop?
GERO: It was a replica.
Ive held one of the original ones.
It was a joy.
And then, (executive producer) Deborah [Pratt] has one.
Theyre 30-year-old pieces of acrylic.
So, we made a new one just in case it got dropped.
When I held one of the originals, it still lit up and everything.
GERO: When we saw the cut.
We were hoping, but you just never know if its gonna work.
We thought it would, but it worked so brilliantly.
And so, youre just like, like, can we just get another good piece?
I loved the use of the Studio Tour flood in an episode, and I recognized the Bates Motel.
How do you figure out where to put that stuff in?
Are you always looking for ways to use different aspects of the theme park?
And are there ones that you havent used that youd still like to use?
GERO: Im the annoying one.
I love Universal Studios.
Its the highlight of my career to be able to shoot a show at Universal Studios.
That episode, to me, was about being able to shoot that flood sequence.
And I was like, Then, we dont have it.
Lets figure out a way to do it.
But also, our show is trying to punch outside of its way on a budgetary level.
GEORGARIS: Dont be surprised if a group of people get stranded at a small fishing lake.
GERO: I remember that tour so vividly.
I was 18 when I first went on it.
We got relatively close to filling that up and shooting a whole boat sequence on there.
Thats the point of making a show like this.
I love every second of that and want Season 3, just to see how you work Jawsin.
GERO: Im working on it.
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